Service and productivity tools

Platform Enablement Library

Base tool. The librtas package contains a library that allows applications to access certain functionality provided by platform firmware. This functionality is required by many of the other higher-level service and productivity tools.

Tools on install media

For more information on this package, please refer to information on the installation media for your Linux distribution.

SRC

SRC is a facility for managing daemons on a system. It provides a standard command interface for defining, undefining, starting, stopping, querying status and controlling trace for daemons.

This package is currently IBM proprietary.

Reliable scalable cluster technology (RSCT) core and utilities

The RSC packages provide the Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) functions and infrastructure needed to monitor and manage one or more Linux systems. RMC provides a flexible and extensible system for monitoring numerous aspects of a system. It also allows customized responses to detected events.

This package is currently IBM proprietary.

Service Resource Manager (ServiceRM)

Service Resource Manager is a Reliable, Scalable, Cluster Technology (RSCT) resource manager that creates the Serviceable Events from the output of the Error Log Analysis Tool (diagela). ServiceRM then sends these events to the Service Focal Point on the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

This package is currently IBM proprietary.

This package supports the relational databases created by the Service Log and Hardware Inventory packages.

DynamicRM (Productivity tool)

Dynamic Resource Manager is a Reliable, Scalable, Cluster Technology (RSCT) resource manager that allows a Hardware Management Console (HMC) to do the following:

1. Dynamically add or remove processors or I/O slots from a running partition
2. Concurrently update system firmware
3. Perform certain shutdown operations on a partition

Release 1.3.5 of DynamicRM has added support for the following:

• Migration from POWER6-based to POWER7-based servers.
• Enablement of end-to-end virtual device view. The end-to-end virtual device view shows how virtual disks map to disk   names in Linux as well as to virtual ethernet interfaces.

This package is currently IBM proprietary.

SG3-utils

This package is a non-IBM, Open Source project.

Hardware Inventory

Base tool. Formerly called "lsvpd" and "lscfg" commands

libvpd

Base tool. The Inventory Scout tool depends on this package.

This package supports the relational database decompression feature of the Hardware Inventory package.

Service Log

Service tool. The Service Log package creates a database to store system-generated events that may require service. The package includes tools for querying the database.

Commands

servicelog

servicelog_notify

log_repair_action

Service Aids

Base tool. Formerly called "update_flash" and "snap" commands

Error Log Analysis

Service tool. The Error Log Analysis tool provides automatic analysis and notification of errors reported by the platform firmware on IBM eServer pSeries systems. This RPM analyzes errors written to /var/log/platform. If a corrective action is required, notification is sent to the Service Focal Point on the Hardware Management Console (HMC), if so equipped, or to users subscribed for notification via the file /etc/diagela/mail_list. The Serviceable Event sent to the Service Focal Point and listed in the e-mail notification may contain a Service Request Number. This number is listed in the "Diagnostics Information for Multiple Bus Systems" manual.

Inventory Scout

The Inventory Scout tool surveys one or more systems for hardware and software information. The IBMinvscout package depends on lsvpd version 0.16. Follow these steps to install:

1. Verify that the ppc64-utils package is already installed:
   # rpm -qa| grep ppc64-utils
2. You must use the --nodeps option to install IBMinvscout:
   # rpm -Uvh --nodeps IBMinvscout-2.3.1-1.ppc.rpm

icom Driver Firmware Binaries for IBM iSeries Muliprotocol adapter(s)

This RPM contains binaries for Linux running on IBM iSeries hardware. These firmware files are needed for icom adapter functionality when the adapter is used with releases as follows:

• Red Hat releases starting with RHEL4.0-U3, and
• Linux kernel releases later than 2.6.20

The rpm -ivh command must be used to install the RPM on IBM iSeries hardware. The binary files are placed in the /lib/firmware directory. IBM recommends that you thoroughly test these firmware binaries before using them in a production environment.

pSeries Energy Management

A utility for automatically managing Linux OS energy management functions on IBM POWER7 systems.

nmon

A popular system monitor tool for the AIX and Linux operating systems.

ESA

A call-home program that automatically submits service requests to an IBM support center when a serviceable hardware event occurs. ESA also provides scheduled deliveries for several types of inventory, including hardware inventory, software inventory, performance data, and system configuration data.

ibmPMLinux

A utility to provide performance management for IBM PowerLinux servers

lpa

A utility for performing Large Page analysis for IBM PowerLinux servers

iprutils

Utilities for RAID adapters for IBM PowerLinux servers

Service Aids add-on

An add-on package for SLES10 for the Service Aids (powerpc-utils package on the SUSE installaiton media.